Admit it. You don’t know enough about the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 to cast a well-considered vote on its merits. And neither do the people you elected to Congress. (more…) Continue Reading →
Senate bill would have huge impact here
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Montana Viewpoint: Private sector leads assault on privacy
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Remember the good old days when we worried that the government was going to invade our privacy? Remember many years ago your Social Security card said right on it, “Not to be used for purposes of identification?”
We were worried about an attack from the wrong quarter—at least for a while—because the real assault on privacy came from the private sector. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Federal Communications Commission, Jim Nelson, Montana Constitution, Privacy
Opinion: Health-care bill could hurt fight against cancer
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As a business leader, I’m a firm believer that everyone deserves access to quality, affordable health care. A healthier population helps curb health care costs, so employers like myself can continue providing health benefits to our employees. That’s why I was proud to support Montana’s bipartisan efforts to increase access to health coverage through Medicaid in 2015, and why I now urge the U.S. Senate to take a more deliberate consideration of health care reform. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, AHCA, American Cancer Society, Bill Underriner, Congressional Budget Office
Daines goes after symbol, not substance
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So tranquil is life in Washington, D.C., that U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., took time last week to introduce a constitutional amendment banning flag desecration. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Greg Gianforte, Jon Tester, Mitch McConnell, Steve Daines
Sanders pushes religious liberty limits
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If your anti-Trumpian urges keep you glued to CNN and MSNBC, you may have missed a couple of instructive stories getting big play on Fox News. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, ACLU, Bernie Sanders, Steve Daines
Montana Viewpoint: A starved government helps only the rich
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Someone once wrote that the only people who are truly free are the very poor and the very rich; the poor because they have nothing and the wealthy because they have everything. From my perspective, considering the way things are going for the middle class, it won’t be too long before all of us are truly free. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Nordquist, U.S. Postal Service
Incivility, political correctness push all our buttons
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A 2016 survey found that 70 percent of Americans believe incivility has reached crisis proportions. A 2015 poll found that 68 percent of Americans believe that “a big problem this country has is being politically correct.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Bill Maher, Greg Gianforte, Kathy Griffin, Marx Brothers
Gianforte learns D.C.’s bullying ways
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In my salad days as a reporter, an angry source stormed into the newspaper office and reached across the counter to lift a fellow reporter by his collar. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Greg Gianforte, Rob Quist, Steve Daines
Montana Viewpoint: The heroes of our state
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The most memorable speech I ever heard was also the shortest. It was given in 1989 by former Gov. Ted Schwinden, and the occasion was the 100th anniversary of Montana’s statehood. I was lucky enough or canny enough to be standing behind the speakers on the Capitol steps, and I had come to listen, not to Schwinden, but to former U.S. Sen. Mike Mansfield, who was one of my political heroes. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Memorial Day, Mike Mansfield, Ted Schwinden
Sailing on the good, but sinking, ship ‘Healthcare’
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Nothing summarizes the emptiness of Montana’s special election for the U.S. House better than the candidates’ stances on what may be the second-most important issue to come before Congress in the next two years: healthcare. Those 30-second TV ads leave little time to flesh out plans for reforming healthcare. But the candidates’ websites, with virtually unlimited and cheap space, aren’t much better. (more…) Continue Reading →
